jarman

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by jarman 9y ago
Also GPT partitions have little use when using mdraid/dm-crypt/lvm2 (or zfs) stack. IIRC Windows have similar features with dynamic partitions, so I don't see any reason to use bios partitioning for anything beyond boot (and
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by jarman 9y ago
>buy used CD's If artists receive nothing from such trades, why not just pirate (assuming you do not care about physical disc)?
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by jarman 9y ago
Biometrics also cannot be used to produce cryptographic keys, meaning that all depend on that last conditional jump not being circumvented.
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by jarman 9y ago
Regulations & compatibility.
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by jarman 9y ago
>why cyrrilic characters or umlauts cause issues in your scripts... Any text format can be broken by broken character encoding. I saw plenty of XML being used without any charset declarations. And JSON is in same position as CSV.
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by jarman 9y ago
Problem is not CSV, it's Excel. It's hard to blame format, when application is insane enough to use locale settings to determine file parsing
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by jarman 9y ago
Chuckled at relevant favicon https://futhark-lang.org/performance.html
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by jarman 9y ago
I am all for text-only, structured web; but gopher transfer protocol is broken mess (which is an achievement considering simplicity of it's purpose).
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by jarman 9y ago
Because search warrant is removal of privacy rights, which is something only court should be allowed do.
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by jarman 9y ago
>but can verify the transactions to the drug site themselves Once you start selectively give out user data, you are basically giving out warrants yourself and acting as a judge.
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by jarman 9y ago
>As a result, you do not need to install any dedicated book reading/management apps on your phone
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by jarman 9y ago
"fearless concurrency" is meaningless marketing, "zero-cost abstractions" is valid term
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by jarman 9y ago
Main difference is not robustness. It's that CD are digital and can be copied perfectly.
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by jarman 9y ago
>a half decent website And what is wrong with current site?
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by jarman 9y ago
>ugly Matter of taste. I personally find it much more comfortable than gmail ui - less clutter and much faster >spam filter Works on server, used MUA does not affect it
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by jarman 10y ago
>Why can't you just click a button and be done Dump 150 table database, both schema and data. Except two tables, for which you need only schema. Then compress, encrypt & email. With CLI I can spend 10 minutes looking up document
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by jarman 10y ago
>CLIs are about memorizing CMD --help man CMD Tab competition Command line history search
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by jarman 10y ago
>many users won't know the real internet Many users have no need for 'real internet'. >completely fuck it up No. 'Real internet' is still there, it's not getting absolutely smaller, only relatively to &#x
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by jarman 10y ago
The most nauseating image in that episode was how memory recording turned into total destruction of privacy. Police reading your thoughts is bad; society expecting people to expose their memories and demanding conformity not in behavior, bu
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by jarman 10y ago
>cloud services If service is required for work - it should on corporate network.
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by jarman 10y ago
Well, if you have to store arbitrary, opaque JS object in XML document, it is much better way than JSON in CDATA
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by jarman 10y ago
Russia also doubled amount of DST related problems by first making DST shift permanent, then canceling it after couple of years.
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by jarman 10y ago
>that a 24 hour clock is just an abstract definition Growing up at almost same latitude (Murmansk oblast), I can confirm that effect
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by jarman 10y ago
Most coherent argument was vague similarity of iconic "Lenin speaks from armored car" image ( http://klin-demianovo.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/prizyvvo... ) with mycelium (car) and fruit body
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by jarman 10y ago
There is FUSE on OSX, but Dropbox said it was not performant enough for them
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by jarman 10y ago
That data is already centralized and interlinked. There is no 'slack' (ambiguity and leeway) as far as government is concerned. I am not arguing for using government-issued IDs for non-government services (as in original post), an
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by jarman 10y ago
Government will identify citizens anyway. It's not choice between ID and no ID, but between simple ID and ad-hoc scheme (Name/Surname/Birthdate/Residence composite, or issuing separate id for each institution). While IDs
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by jarman 10y ago
4chan is quite "web2.0" for a board. BBS'es on 2ch.net could be better example, with their borer="1" tables, wall-of-text navigation, CGI scripts and adorable brick background
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by jarman 11y ago
>coliving experiments in big cities, targeting young adults I think layman translation of this marketing bullshit is "barrack" http://i.imgur.com/UB56u0G.jpg
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by jarman 11y ago
No, I am not, I was talking purely from morality standpoint. >If you encourage someone to commit adultery, you are morally culpable Apparently we just happen to have different views. For me, adultery encouragement is unsympathetic act, b

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